Vishwanath Shahdeo

Vishwanath Shahdeo (12 August 1817-16 April 1858) was an Indian chieftain and rebel leader during the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny.

Biography
Vishwanath Shahdeo was born in Lohardaga, Bengal Presidency, British India on 12 August 1817, and he became the ruler of the Barkagarh estate. He opposed the East India Company and the arrival of British Protestant missionaries, and he joined the Indian revolutionaries during the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, raising a Mukti Vahini (People's Army). He was forced the British out of Ranchi, only to later be captured and executed at the same town on 16 April 1858.